On May 23, the United States Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, as part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), published a new health advisory that warns of the mental health risks involved in social media addiction by children and...
On February 21, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, involving Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 in which the family of Nohemi Gonzalez sued Google, Inc. The family alleges that Google subsidiary, YouTube, was responsible for...
On November 10, 2022, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers approved the leadership team in the multidistrict social media addiction litigation filed against social media giant Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, and a number of other social media...
On August 20, 2022, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to consolidate a number of social media addiction lawsuits filed by plaintiffs who have targeted the company, alleging they have...
There have been a number of recent developments in litigation and proposed legislation arising out of the issues of privacy violations and children’s social media addiction to platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Concerned about the negative...
